Gordon Oehler joined the CIA in 1972 and served in a variety of analytical and managerial positions involving weapons systems and foreign policy analysis. Included in these assignments were the chief of the Technology Transfer Assessment Center (responsible for impeding the flow of Western technology into Soviet weapons programs) and the director of the Office of Scientific and Weapons Research (responsible for all analysis and reporting relating to foreign weapon systems and technology developments). In May 1992, Dr. Oehler was appointed the director of the Nonproliferation Center. In this capacity, he serves as the senior Intelligence Community spokesman on proliferation issues.
